An activist religiosity? Exploring Christian support for the Occupy movement

被引:5
作者
Winter, Emily [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
Christianity; social movements; Occupy; activism; religious identity; EMERGING CHURCH; SPIRITUALITY; RESOURCES; FAITH;
D O I
10.1080/13537903.2016.1256648
中图分类号
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号
010107 ;
摘要
While Christian involvement in progressive social movements and activism is increasingly recognized, this literature has rarely gone beyond conceptualising religion as a resource to consider instead the ways in which individual activists may articulate their religious identity and how this intersects with the political. Based on ten in-depth interviews with Christian supporters of the London Occupy movement, this study offers an opportunity to respond to this gap by exploring the rich meaning-making processes of these activists. The article suggests that the location of the Occupy camp outside St Paul's Cathedral was of central importance in bringing the Christian Occupiers' religio-political identities to the foreground, their Christianity being defined in opposition to that represented by St Paul's. The article then explores the religio-political meaning-making of the Christian Occupiers and introduces the term activist religiosity' as a way of understanding how religion and politics were articulated, and enacted, in similar ways. Indeed, religion and politics became considerably entangled and intertwined, rendering theoretical frameworks that conceptualise religion as a resource increasingly inappropriate. The features of this activist religiosity include post-institutional identities, a dislike of categorisation, and, centrally, the notion of doings'a predominant focus on engaged, active involvement.
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页码:51 / 66
页数:16
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